Cheryl Monteiro, MD, recently joined the staff of the MGH Charlestown HealthCare Center’s Adult Medicine Department. Dr. Monteiro grew up in New Jersey and went to Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She moved to New England for her General Internal…
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Plan Announced for 2070-Resilient Waterfront Development to Solve Urgent Sea-Level Rise Issues
Special to Times The Flatley Company has announced that the 21-acre site of the former Domino Sugar Refinery will be developed and transformed to reconnect to the Charlestown neighborhood and open up the waterfront to the public for the first…
Charlestown Sprouts Community Garden Received Grant
Charlestown Sprouts Community Garden received some good news last week when it was awarded a grant from Massachusetts Department of Agriculture Resources’ Urban Agriculture Program (MDAR). As part of Climate Week in Massachusetts, the Baker-Polito Administration announced over $2.9 million…
Sen. DiDomenico Speaks on the Floor of the Senate in Support of the Healthy Youth Act
On Thursday, the Massachusetts Senate voted to pass Senator Sal DiDomenico’s bill, An Act relative to healthy youth, (S.2534). This bill will ensure that Massachusetts public schools electing to teach sex education curriculum use age-appropriate, medically accurate, and research-based information that covers…
North Washington Street Bridge Construction Look-Ahead
North Washington Street Bridge Replacement You are subscribed to North Washington Street Bridge Replacement Updates from Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Navigational Channel Closure The planned closure of the entire marine channel below the North Washington Street Bridge, originally noted in…
Baker-Polito Administration Files Legislation to Further Support Military Families Transferring to Mass
The Baker-Polito Adminis-tration filed legislation to improve the occupational licensing process for certain professions for military families transferring to Massachusetts. The legislation would help facilitate license portability for military families transferring to military installations in Massachusetts by entering the Commonwealth…
Let’s Build a Drug Treatment and Homeless Facility in Dover
Back in the 1970s and ‘80s, when there was talk of expanding Logan Airport to the detriment of residents in the communities of Winthrop, Revere, Chelsea, and South Boston, among others, then-State Senator William Bulger of So. Boston suggested constructing…
Guest Op-Ed: Resilience in the Midst of Such Suffering
By Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley On September 6, I was able to visit Haiti to meet with Cardinal Langlois of Les Cayes, to survey the challenges now confronting the Haitian people and to express the solidarity of the Archdiocese, home…
Hundreds Turn Out to Welcome a Hero Home Korean War Veteran Remains Return Home
By Bill Durette In 2018, President Trump negotiated with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to repatriate the remains of 50 U.S. soldiers missing from the Korean War. One of the remains returned was that of Lt. Thomas J. Redgate who served…